[cg] [Fwd: TPL remarks]
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- Subject: [cg] [Fwd: TPL remarks]
- From: L* L* <p*@interport.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:34:02 -0400
Here is the statement from TPL about the purchase of the gardens from NYC. It is a victory that we didn't lose any sites. We are concerned about creating a dangerous precedent. This money and peoples energy could have been put to much better use actually developing the gardens. We are excited anyway and look forward to creating some positive policy for the preservation and creation of gardens in NYC and other cities. Thanks to all who supported this effort. Lenny Librizzi
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- Subject: TPL remarks
- From: "* K*<j*@tpl.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:29:05 -0700
===================================================== The CYBERPARK mailing list ===================================================== TPL is working on a letter to all of the 63 gardens that it will be acquiring from the city. We will be glad to post that on cyberpark. In the meantime, here are exerpts from the remarks made at the Green Guerilla benefit by Andy Stone, NYC Program Director. Also, following is a list of the 63 sites we will be acquiring. "This has been a very difficult 4 months for the whole open space movement, since learning of the City's plans to auction about 110 community gardens. Many people have worked hard to convince the City of the importance of these gardens, and have made the case that a process is needed to review all community-managed gardens and determine which ones make a real contribution to their community and should be considered for preservation. Activist groups took to the streets and helped dramatize the issue and keep it in the news. Advocates, including the Green Guerillas, Borough Presidents Golden and Ferrer, Attorney General Spitzer, the NY Environmental Justice Alliance, the Puerto Rican Defense Fund, and the More Gardens Coalition, helped keep the heat on with 4 separate lawsuits. And our colleague organizations including the NY and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Council on the Environment, NOSC, GreenThumb, the Green Guerillas, and elected officials, particularly the City Council, continued their tremendous support to gardens around the City. It appears that the message of all of these groups, and of the many other supporters, has been heard. The process is not quite what we would all have liked it to be, but the auction of gardens will not occur tomorrow. At 5:30 today, Deputy Mayors Lhota and Levine signed an agreement with the Trust for Public Land whereby TPL will take title to 63 of the gardens that had been slated for auction, for a price of $3 million. It appears that the City is close to a separate agreement with another nonprofit, the New York Restoration Project, chaired by Bette Midler, for the roughly 50 additional sites that had been slated for auction. A few additional features of the Trust for Public Land's agreement with the City: -- these sites will be used in perpetuity for open space purposes. -- TPL and the City will immediately begin discussions regarding the preservation of additional sites which have previously been approved, through the ULURP process, for auctioning. TPL's letter agreement co-signed by Deputy Mayors Levine and Lhota ends with the following statement: "TPL does not believe that the purchase of community gardens by the private, not-for profit sector represents a valid model of garden preservation. It is our hope that this agreement will represent a starting point for a comprehensive, community-based program of permanent protection of community gardens." The sites acquired by TPL will continue to be managed as they are now by community residents. TPL will act as an interim land trust, and will work with the leaders of all of the gardens participating in our land trust, to constitute a series of new multi-neighborhood land trusts to own these sites permanently." Community Board Garden Name Block Lot M3 Lower East Side People Care 271 63 M3 Parque de Tranquilidad 373 10,12 M3 All People's Garden 373 58, 59 M3 11th Street Block Association 438 19 M3 Albert's Garden 458 40,41 M11 East Harlem Council 1711 13,15 M11 Papo's Garden 1788 30,31,32,34 M7 La Perla Garden 1840 61 M10 CEP Community Garden 1953 28 M10 Bradhurst Ave Tenants 2046 35 M9 West Harlem Group 2074 29 M9 Comm Group of the 500 146th 2077 43 M9 Mo' Pals 2079 11 Q3 McIntosh Neighborhood Assoc 1650 2 Q3 Malcolm X Day Care 1726 14 Q12 Dunton Block 10072 18 plus 117 Q12 Garden of Eden 10078 43 Q13 Cambria Heights Civic 11327 1 Q12 Merrick-Mardsen 12371 332,333 X1 Neighborhood Advisory Committee 2397 13 X4 Grant Avenue Neighborhood 2448 11 X4 Sherman Avenue Association 2455 37 plus 138 X4 Roberto Clemente 2506 87,89,91,94 X1 Cherry Tree 2564 10 X1 Eagle Avenue Group 2619 18 X1 Cauldwell Youth Garden 2623 58 X2 52 People for Progress 2685 61 X6 Tremont Community 3060 42,38,39,43 X6 Belmont Little Farmers 3078 69 X6 2120 Mapes 3111 7,8 X6 Concerned Tenants of Daly Avenue 3125 35 X5 Anthony Avenue Homeowners 3156 55 X7 Concerned Citizens of Davidson Avenue 3199 46 X7 Bedford Mosholu 3292 86,149 X9 Manor Avenue Block Association 3716 59 B2 200 Bergen Street Garden 387 38, 39 B6 Warren Street Garden 934 19, 66 B6 Lincoln Berkeley 950 16 B6 President Street Greening Committee 955 49 B8 St. Mark's Avenue Block Association 1144 63 B8 Pacific Street Gardeners 1200 70 B8 MaMa Dee's Garden 1225 10 B8 St. John's Place Renaissance Garden 1387 34 B8 Ralph Lincoln Service Center 1387 40 B3 John the Baptist Community Center 1586 41 B3 Greene Block Association 1622 32 B3 Patchen Avenue United Block Assoc 1623 4 B3 Central Bainbridge Block Association 1683 90,91 B3 Hart Street Garden 1768 65,66 B3 United Herkimer Garden Club 1860 62 B3 Clifton Place Block Association 1952 3 B2 Hollenback Community Garden 1962 69 B3 Classon/Fulgate Block Association 1984 62 B2 Group of South Oxford/South Portland 2099 43 B1 Northside 2337 1 B4 Flushing Avenue Tenants Association 3155 20 B4 Youth City Little League/People's Garden3283 1,3,4 B4 Woodbine Street Block Association 3359 28 B4 Contented Garden 3457 3 B5 Sheffield South Block Association 4298 65 B5 Euclid/Pine Street Block Association 4461 9 B17 Roger/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Assoc.5128 70 posted by Jessica Kaslow TPL, NYC Program Assistant =================================================================== You are in Cyberpark, a public place. 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